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Apr102012

Thomas, Kevin J. A.

The Pennsylvania State University/ The Migration Policy Institute

The majority of Caribbean immigrants who come as US permanent residents are admitted based on family ties. The 1.7 million Caribbean-born Black immigrants in the United States represent just half of all Black immigrants in the country; most come from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. Black immigrants accounted for only 3, 14, and 47 percent of immigrants from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Dominica respectively ...